A murder is an annoying thing, especially when you’ve been able to cover it up for years, but suddenly an unknown accomplice makes itself felt and threatens to drag the whole thing into the open. This is exactly what happens in the six-part ZDF mini-series The girl and the night based on the novel by Guillaume Musso (screenplay Marston Bloom, directed by Bill Eagles). It’s a perfectly constructed and elegantly directed thriller that takes an unexpected turn every few minutes, a spiral of despair and inevitability, even involving the Russian mafia. It’s about a murder out of jealousy, two high school students and their young teacher are involved in it, in Antibes, the place with the luxury marina on the Côte d’Azur, the snow is swirling in the streets there in December 1997.
Elegant thriller series: criticism of the ZDF series “The Girl and the Night” – media
